The priority for most of us when we die, is to ensure that our loved ones inherit from us, and that our assets pass safely to them, without risk of being lost. This may not always be as simple as we would wish. Assets may be ‘lost’ in a number of ways; one of which might be to pay for

Quite often when considering the importance of wills, particularly for those people with complex family situations or reasonably large estates, the statement is made, “Why can’t I just give away my assets during lifetime? The taxman will never know.” Theoretically anything is possible